Ireland’s economic freedom score falls for the second year

ECONOMIC freedom in Ireland is on the decline the Economic Freedom of the World 2003 report states and it is getting worse according to the Irish contributors to the study.

The Irish based Open Republic Institute (OPI) compiled the Irish data for the worldwide study and OPI director Paul MacDonnell believes the level of economic freedom in Ireland has deteriorated since the base figures for the 2003 report were compiled, relying 2001 data.

Ireland’s economic freedom score has fallen for the second year in a row but the country still ranks as the seventh most economically free in the world.